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Offline Alex

Re: Post Your Hardware!
« Reply #195 on: Friday, June 20, 2014, 14:54:06 PM »
You see that Killaman, Bart has better memory and hard drive than you. Are you going to lie down and take that insult from him?
Send me a check for $130 and I'll gladly buy an SSD.

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Re: Post Your Hardware!
« Reply #196 on: Friday, June 20, 2014, 20:45:23 PM »
Send me a check for $130 and I'll gladly buy an SSD.

$130?? i dam spent 280 for mine

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« Reply #197 on: Friday, June 20, 2014, 21:35:09 PM »
$130?? i dam spent 280 for mine
128GB ones are around $130 now days.

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« Reply #198 on: Friday, June 20, 2014, 22:40:29 PM »
$130?? i dam spent 280 for mine
128gb Samsung 840 Pro goes for $100 on Amazon right now. I don't need a huge storage SSD.

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Re: Post Your Hardware!
« Reply #199 on: Friday, June 20, 2014, 22:41:43 PM »
You can regularly find the EVO version for around $80. 3 Year warranty and actually better speeds than the Pro.
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« Reply #200 on: Friday, June 20, 2014, 23:11:10 PM »
You can regularly find the EVO version for around $80. 3 Year warranty and actually better speeds than the Pro.
The pro is much more reliable from what I hear though.

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« Reply #201 on: Saturday, June 21, 2014, 03:23:38 AM »
128gb Samsung 840 Pro goes for $100 on Amazon right now. I don't need a huge storage SSD.
128 gb is usually enough, just put boot on it, you still have at least 60 gb left. And I don't need more speed to open up my word docs, movies or my music;)

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Re: Post Your Hardware!
« Reply #202 on: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 15:57:52 PM »
The pro is much more reliable from what I hear though.
Of course, it's a higher end SSD. However, I still trust the EVO. It's not a bottom of the barrel SSD. There are plenty of brands that I don't trust. Samsung is the world leader in memory production if I'm not mistaken. They have a lot of high end devices. If I were looking for a SSD for a server or some critical environment with lots of disk writes, I wouldn't look at the EVO. However, for desktop use, it's plenty good. Any drive can fail so it's good to have backups just in case.

Good SSD's are meant to have tons of terabytes put on them, if not a petabyte or two. I've had my Samsung 830 Pro (yes, 830, not 840) for 2 years and have only written 13.31 terabytes to it. I've done tons of game installs, uninstalls, file juggling for AA stuff, re-installing Windows and not to mention data backup for customers. Samsung includes awesome software to enable over-provisioning (for wear leveling) and OS reliability optimization. I'm confident that the EVO drives will live long enough to be outdated and replaced by a much faster model. After 2 years, my 830 already feels sluggish and I have 3 years left on the warranty. It's not that something is wrong with the drive, I've just gotten used to the insane speed bump and am ready for the next level.

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Re: Post Your Hardware!
« Reply #204 on: Monday, June 23, 2014, 13:48:26 PM »
Since where talking about ssd , is it a true fact by using killer disk to wipe hard drive clean will destroy or limit the time use of the ssd hard drive ???

I think I have the Samsung  pro 256 or 5 1 2 ssd, forgot which one

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Re: Post Your Hardware!
« Reply #205 on: Monday, June 23, 2014, 17:34:07 PM »
Less writes = better. Writes are what kill SSD's since each cell of the NAND memory only has a certain amount. Using a wiping program once won't kill it but if you do it on a daily or weekly schedule, it's not good. Same for defragmenting. It's best to use the Samsung Magician software to set the drive up, enable over-provisioning, os optimization and RAPID if your SSD supports it.
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« Reply #206 on: Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 03:56:23 AM »
SSD works on a very different way as a normal HDD. I recommend you to google a little bit about how an SSD works, and you will clearly see why defragmenting is bad and unneeded on an SSD.

Offline Alex

Re: Post Your Hardware!
« Reply #207 on: Saturday, January 17, 2015, 13:47:59 PM »
Picked up a GTX 970 and a Corsair HX650.
Next on my list of upgrades is ram, case, and eventually an SSD.




CPU: Intel i7 4770K @ 3.5GHz (3.9 turbo)
GPU: Gigabyte Windforce Geforce GTX 970 4GB
MOBO: ASRock Z97 Extreme 4 1150
RAM: 2x4gb Kingston HyperX Blu @ 1333
PSU: Corsair Professional HX650
CASE: Antec Three Hundred Illusion Mid-Tower
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate

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Re: Post Your Hardware!
« Reply #208 on: Saturday, January 17, 2015, 14:47:58 PM »
You can do better cable management than that. Only 1 screw on the GPU?!?!? 1333MHz RAM OMG HOW SLOW!

This is an old build I did 3 years back when I was more noob with your same case and no modular PSU. Plus it had 1600MHz RAMS :)

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Re: Post Your Hardware!
« Reply #209 on: Saturday, January 17, 2015, 15:50:04 PM »
You can do better cable management than that. Only 1 screw on the GPU?!?!? 1333MHz RAM OMG HOW SLOW!

This is an old build I did 3 years back when I was more noob with your same case and no modular PSU. Plus it had 1600MHz RAMS :)


That's all nice and fancy, but when your GPU barely fits in your case you can't simply run your cables around it. The cables aren't long enough and/or are too thick to squeeze around or under the gpu. Trust me, I took 2 hours just doing the cables trying to find the best way to do it. I moved everything multiple times. What I need is a case with a cable management system where you runt he cables underneath everything.
Also, my ram is perfectly fine for gaming. There isn't any noticeable different in game performance for me to step up the speed. When I do buy new ram (I'm planning on it soon) I will get faster ram, but for now this is fine.
« Last Edit: Saturday, January 17, 2015, 15:53:23 PM by KiLLaMaN »

 

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